by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana | August 30th, 2010
I can’t believe the summer vacation is over and kids will be going back to school this week. Summer went by way too fast! I was happy to get a letter from my daughter’s school announcing new snack policies: The school will not be giving out ... Read More
by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana | August 24th, 2010
What would you eat if your food choices were based on TV ads? A new study in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association looking at the nutritional content of foods advertized on prime time and kids’-time TV suggests you’d be ... Read More
by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana | August 18th, 2010
Peer pressure is a pretty powerful force that can both help and impede kids’ choices. No kid is totally immune to peer pressure and that’s why I care a lot about whom my kids hang out with—I’m sure most parents do. Peer behavior influences a ... Read More
by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana | August 10th, 2010
How do you eat your meals? Do you have dinner with your family or dine in company? Do you eat while watching TV, or at your desk? Does how we eat really matter? A study in Public Health Nutrition, looking at Americans' food-related time use over ... Read More
by Emily Hall | August 3rd, 2010
Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile & Its Effect on Our Lives By: Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez Favorite Quote: “We are driving to vacation less and less, but we are working more and more, in no small part, to drive our cars to work ... Read More
by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana | August 2nd, 2010
Kids watch TV about three and a half hours a day. They’re exposed to it as background many hours more. Advertizing on TV therefore remains the central vehicle brands use to reach kids. Ads are clever and compelling, and their effect on kids—especially young ones—is ... Read More
by Emily Hall | July 30th, 2010
This week some utterly bizarre and disturbing news surfaced about a grizzly bear attacking sleeping campers near Yellowstone National Park. The bear attacked three people, killing one. The first victim was a 21-year old sleeping in a tent with his girlfriend. Ronald Singer was ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | July 29th, 2010
It is crucial that we begin to take "climate change" out of the abstract future and find cures for the Earth's ills now rather than sometime in our grandchildren's generation. Perhaps the worse-than-dirty-toilet-like toxic stews brewing in the Gulf, in China, and in the Chesapeake Bay ... Read More
by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana | July 27th, 2010
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” ~Albert Einstein A shocking report published in 2006 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, showed that the livestock sector generates more ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | July 20th, 2010
We hear the term "energy independence" all the time, but what would it really mean for the U.S. to rely less on the global economy for our prodigious energy appetite? Unlike the isolationism and post-apocalyptic survivalism that seem to be the focus of the anti-government, anti-globalization ... Read More
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